RUSSIA: Man of the Year, 1939

On the year's shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son
was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion
Djugashvili. The boy's pious mother christened him Joseph, after the
husband of Mary, mother of Jesus.

But names were not to stick very long to this newest subject of the
Tsar; he was to answer to Soso, Koba, David, Nijeradze, Chijikov and
Ivanovich until at length he acquired the pseudonym of Stalin, Man of
Steel.